Grannewwail

• Granuaile (Irish "Grainne Ni Mhaille", anglicized as Grace O'Malley) was a renowned sea captain who led a band of 200 sea-raiders from the coast of Galway in the sixteenth century. She was twice widowed, twice imprisoned, fighting her enemies both Irish and English for her rights, condemned for piracy, and finally pardoned in London by Queen Elizabeth. Like Cathleen Ni Houlihan she is often seen as a poetic symbol for Ireland.

• Grainne' (Irish gran "grain, corn") was the ancient Irish patroness of the harvest. In later legends Grainne was the name of the daughter of high king Cormac Mac Art, promised in marriage to Fionn Mac Cool) When Grainne saw him at the wedding banquet she realised Fionn was too old for her and put a "geis," a love spell on Fionn's nephew, Diarmuid. They ran away together but Fionn's pursuit prevented them from spending two consecutive nights in the same place. Megalithic sites are still referred to as "the bed of Grainne and Diarmuid".